Health effects of fossil fuel combustion products. Report of a workshop held in Indian Wells, California, November 11-13, 1974

This workshop is the first of a series of specialized meetings to provide considered and authoritative guidance for the research needed on a national basis and by the utility industry to assure that energy needs are met with a minimum environmental cost. The emphasis of this Workshop was entirely on the scientific basis for decision making related to the effects of the fossil fuel combustion products on human health and well-being. This report restricts itself primarily to brief judgmental positions on the state of knowledge relating air pollution to health. The key questions considered were: if our present information is adequate yet important to the development of National Policy, what needs to be done to sharpen the information, and how should the Nation go about filling these needs. This report represents an attempt to define research directions aimed at filling these energy needs safely. It is especially aimed at the problems of the next decade, before major new types of nuclear, solar, or geothermal energy can become available. (47 references) (GRA)